Towcester - work in progress embraces spirit of free enterprise

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THIS is tricky. A much-loved course rose from the sleep of the dead last week and welcomed thousands of devotees. Exact numbers remain obscure, as everyone was allowed in free and most were then accommodated under canvas, like boy scouts on camp. Is this a masterstroke by Towcester, or a marketing con?

A sense of recent history is needed. Towcester has had it tough. This is farming country and the course was among the worst sufferers from foot-and-mouth. Then its main stand — an elegant, impractical relic — was condemned. Finally, its stabling was deemed unacceptable under the strict modern